"You wouldn’t think Lecter could do anything that would shock us after The Silence of the Lambs"
This is not the best Harris novel featuring his delightful Hannibal Lecter, the notorious killer who has a taste for ... well, you know. You wouldn’t think Lecter could do anything that would shock us after peeling off the face of one of his victims in The Silence of the Lambs to use as a disguise and make his escape.
There’s not much he’s not capable of, and I guess that’s why we love him so much. But near the end of Hannibal, our anti-hero prepares a meal the way you might whose preparation involves a procedure not unlike opening up a melon except it’s not a melon. It’s not really a plot twist.
It’s simply a scene so nonchalantly horrific, so ghoulishly imaginative, that when I came upon it, it took my breath away. Oh, and my jaw dropped, too.
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Hannibal by Thomas Harris
Hannibal features in the following genres: Thriller and Suspense, Crime and Mystery, Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Fiction, General Fiction
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Hannibal was written by Thomas Harris and published by Random House Publishing Group
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